Improvement in clasps for skirt and stocking supporters



E. C. FALES.

CLASPS FOR SKIRT AND STOCKING SUPPORTERS.

No. 189,442. Patented April 10, 1877.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE ELLIS O. FALES, OF FOXBOROUGH, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLASPS FOR SKIRT AND S TOCKING SUPPORTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 189,442, dated April 10, 1877: application filed February 21, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELLIS O. FALES, of Foxborough, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented Improvements in Clasps for Skirt and Stocking Supporters, &c., of which the following is a specification This invention relates to certain improvements in clasps for skirt and stocking supports; and consists of a novel construction and arrangement of parts, which will be fully hereinafter described.

In the accompanying plate of drawings, Figures 1 and 2 are face views of the clasp from difl'erent sides; Fig. 3, a section on line as :c, Fig. 1; Fig. 4, an edge view'of the clasp open, or its two parts disengaged; and Fig. 5, anedge view of the clasp closed, or its two parts interlocked.

In the drawings,- A represents my improved clasp. This clasp A is in two parts, a and b, both made of metal or of other suitable material. The part a is a flat plate, which at one end is suitably adapted by a slot. 0, or otherwise, to be attached to the strap through which the clasp is to be suspended, as ordinarily, from the wearing-apparel of the person, and at the other end is made with ahook or shoulder, 01. The letter b represents a bent spring-plate, the leg e of which is adapted to slide in a slot, l, in the plate a, so that the andthus to hold the two against accidental disengagement from the strain on the clasp when in ordinary use.

so asto place the spring-leg g of the part b under the shoulder d of the part a, which secures and completes the fastening of the clasp to the stocking, &c., as is obvious.

To unfasten the clasp from a stocking, &c.,

.slide the part b on the part a, and bring the spring-leg g of the part b out from under the shoulder 01 of the part a, all as is obvious.

m is a lip projecting from part b into slot 1 of part a for the better steadying and guiding of the part b in its said movement on the part.

In Fig. 5, n is a hook on the upper end of the clasp, whereby the clasp can be supported by hooking over the top part of, or into a loop, &c., in, the clothing.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a clasp or garment holder, the plate a centrally slotted, and provided at one end with a loop or book, and a shoulder at the opposite end, in combination with a bent springplate, b, provided with a pivot on its inner side adapted to slide in the slot of plate a, and the elongated portion or end adapted to rest within the shoulder, all constructed and arranged as described.

Witnesses EDWIN W. BROWN, GEo. H. EARL.

ELLIS G. FALES; 

